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I WILL LAY BANDS UPON THEE - Contrast margin reference. The Lord will
put constraint upon him, to cause him to exercise his office. In the
retirement of his house, figuratively bound and under constra...
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Ezekiel 4:1. The word tile means “brick.” They were used by the
Babylonians to preserve their records, and many have been found marked
with building plans, etc. The sign of the tile foretells the sieg...
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(B) THE EXILE: ITS DURATION. The next action is more curious. Ezekiel
is represented as lying upon his side for 190 days (as LXX correctly
reads in Ezekiel 4:5) to symbolise the years of punishment in...
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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterisimos_ App-6....
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Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27
The second section of the Book contains these parts:
(1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded
to confine himself to his o...
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_from one side to another_ lit. _from thy side to thy side_. Here the
prophet represents those pressed by the rigours of the siege, as in
Ezekiel 4:4. The "days of thy siege" most naturally means the...
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THE DAYS OF THY SIEGE— That is, the three hundred and ninety days'
siege of Jerusalem, mentioned in the preceding verse. That siege, from
the beginning to the ending of it, lasted seventy-seven months...
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II. PARABLE OF ISRAEL'S SIN 4:4-8
TRANSLATION
(4) And as for you, lie upon your left side, and set the iniquity of
the house of Israel upon it. The number of days in which you lay upon
it you shall b...
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And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee
from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
I WILL LAY BANDS UPON THEE - () i:e., a constraint or re...
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§ 2. THE OVERTHROW OF THE JEWISH KINGDOM FORETOLD (EZEKIEL 4-7)
The great theme of the first part of Ezekiel's prophetic ministry was
the certainty of the complete downfall of the Jewish state. Though...
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BANDS] By some divine restraint Ezekiel would be prevented from
turning. THE DAYS OF THY SIEGE] The number 430 represented the days of
the siege of Jerusalem as well as the sum of the years of the two...
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EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’
THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 4
THE BRICK AND THE IRON PLATE – EZEKIEL 4:1-8
V1 ‘*Son
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I WILL LAY BANDS UPON THEE. — See on Ezekiel 3:25. This is a fresh
feature of the unrelenting character of the judgment foretold: God’s
power should interpose to keep the prophet to his work. Not only...
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וְ הִנֵּ֛ה נָתַ֥תִּי עָלֶ֖יךָ
עֲבֹותִ֑ים וְ ל
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THE END FORETOLD
Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1
WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great
division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of
about four and a...
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The second division of the Book contains the messages of the prophet
concerning the reprobation of the chosen nation. These fall into three
parts. In the first, by symbolism and speech he described th...
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And, behold, I will lay (e) cords upon thee, and thou shalt not turn
thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy
siege.
(e) The people would so straightly be besieged that the...
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I cannot but think somewhat more than Ezekiel, as a servant, and the
captivity of the people in Babylon, was intended by this type. At
least it is hardly possible to overlook Christ, the one and only...
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Besides the general judgment that God pronounced upon the condition of
Israel, Jerusalem-on whom lay all the iniquity of the people now come
to its height-appears before God whom she had despised. The...
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AND, BEHOLD, I WILL LAY HANDS UPON THEE,.... Representing either the
besieged, signifying that they should be taken and bound as he was; or
rather the besiegers, the Chaldean army, which should be so...
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And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee
from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Ver. 8. _And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee._] To show...
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_Thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem_ Thou shalt
look toward Jerusalem, or toward the portraiture of it upon the tile,
with a threatening countenance, as men do toward the city which...
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And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, holding him down, causing him
to hold out with patience in the difficult feat proposed, AND THOU
SHALT NOT TURN THEE FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER, to relieve the
t...
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THE SYMBOL OF THE SIEGE...
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FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER:
_ Heb._ from thy side to thy side...
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1-8 The prophet was to represent the siege of Jerusalem by signs. He
was to lie on his left side for a number of days, supposed to be equal
to the years from the establishment of idolatry. All that th...
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Whoever were the persons that laid bonds on Ezekiel, in EZEKIEL 3:25,
here it is plain that the Lord doth it. If the prophet represent the
besieged citizens who must be captives in bonds, then it is l...
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“And you shall set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, with
your arm uncovered, and you will prophesy against it, and behold I lay
bands on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to...
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CONTENTS: The sign of the tile. Typical representations.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel.
CONCLUSION: If men will not serve God with cheerfulness in the
abundance of all things, God will make them serve th...
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Ezekiel 4:1. _Son of man, take thee a tile._ It is probable that the
prophet took a sheet of plastic clay proper for his purpose; for the
Hebrew root בנה _banah,_ is generally applied to construction...
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_Take thee a tile._
THE MINISTRY OF SYMBOLISM
In this chapter there begins a series of symbols utterly impossible of
modern interpretation. This ministry of symbolism has still a place in
all progres...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 4:1 Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah. The
oracles of chs. Ezekiel 4:1 come before Jerusalem’s downfall in 587
B.C. Although the sequence
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3. FIRST INSTRUCTIONS BY SIGNS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
(Chaps. Ezekiel 4:1 to Ezekiel 5:17).
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel is ordered to carry out certain specified
processes. Their purport is expressed...
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EXPOSITION
Prior to any detailed examination of the strange series of acts
recorded in this and the following chapter, we are met with the
question whether they were indeed visible and outward acts,...
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CHAPTER 4.
THE VISION OF THE SIEGE AND THE INIQUITY-BEARING.
Ezekiel 4:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and set it
before thee, and engrave on it the city Jerusalem._
Ezekiel 4:2. _And l...
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Now thou also, Son of man, take a tile (Ezekiel 4:1),
Now this is a brick, and it's about twelve inches by fourteen inches.
The archeologists have uncovered thousands of these bricks there in
the area...
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Ezekiel 3:25...
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Bands — An invisible restraint assuring him, that those could no
more remove from the siege, than he from that side he lay on....